Central province

The Departments of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Nghe An, Ha Tinh and Quang Binh provinces jointly organized a program to promote tourism in the provinces, in Laos, on May 21. Businesses from Laos and the three provinces of Vietnam meet to exchange information and sign cooperation program The event was attended by the leaders of the Departments of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Nghe An, Ha Tinh and Quang Binh provinces; representatives of tourism associations and tourism enterprises in the provinces; representatives of the Vietnamese Embassy in Laos, the Department of Tourism Marketing of Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism of Laos; representatives of the Laos Tourism Association and many tourism businesses in the Businessmen Association and Vietnam – Laos Friendship Association, along with a large number of media and newspapers in Laos and Vietnam. Addressing the event, the Deputy Director of the Nghe An Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Nguyen Thi … [Read more...] about Vietnam”s north central provinces promote tourism in Laos

On May 9 police in Sa Dec city accosted Nguyen Van Thu at a car wash in Ward 1 and seized notebooks with records of his loans, more than 400 deposit contracts and identity documents and 3,000 flyers and 700 leaflets for loans. Ho Van Tram of Nước Tre village in Quang Ngai Province’s Tra Tho Commune said he was forced to pay VNĐ300 million after his son had borrowed VNĐ100 million from a loan shark. Photo courtesy of Nguoi Lao Dong (The Labourer) newspaper. They then raided his house in Tan Quy Dong Ward in Sa Dec City, where they found another 150 contracts, dozens of land use permits and other documents. The police arrested him on charges of being a loan shark. Six people linked with Thư were also arrested, and all have admitted to lending money to students and small traders at interest rates of up to 20 per cent a month. Similarly, in Can Tho city, police discovered a group of people from Ninh Binh and Dak Nong led by Phan Văn Thiêm … [Read more...] about Loan sharks cause suffering in Mekong Delta, central provinces

Gray-shanked douc langurs (pygathrix cinerea) pictured in a forest in central Việt Nam. Quảng Nam Province started an urgent programme to protect a population of the endangered langurs in Núi Thành District. — Photo courtesy GreenViet Viet Nam News QUẢNG NAM — The central province, in co-operation with the Centre of Biodiversity Conservation, GreenViet, began an urgent conservation project for two herds of gray-shanked douc langurs (pygathrix cinerea) in a forest of Núi Thành District’s Tam Mỹ Tây Commune. Deputy head of Quảng Nam Forest Protection sub-department Từ Văn Khánh said the population of 20 gray-shanked douc langurs were found living on 10ha of primary forest in 2000, and the local community have since protected the critically endangered primates. Khánh said the langurs, listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUNC) Red List as one of the world’s … [Read more...] about Central province to launch urgent protection of endangered langurs

Water and soil are contaminated with saline in Nhon Hai commune, Ninh Hai district of the south central province of Ninh Thuan (Source: VNA) Ninh Thuan (VNA) - Water and agricultural land in Nhon Hai commune, Ninh Hai district of the south central province of Ninh Thuan has been contaminated with high saline levels, affecting local production and livelihoods. Nearly 400 aquatic production bases of the commune covering an area of some 100ha have recently released untreated sea water. The sea water absorbed in the soil has contaminated 30ha of agricultural land with salt. Aquatic production bases are located in centralised area of Ninh Thuan province but the water treatment system has not been completed. Tran Kim Mien, a farmer in My Tuong 2 village, said in the past two years, due to the saline intrusion, ground water is contaminated with salt and cannot be used to water plants. He has to stop production on several areas of land. Farmers in the commune have also been forced to … [Read more...] about Saline intrusion occurs in south central province

Viet Nam News QUẢNG NAM — Two illegal logging cases were discovered in the central province’s Đông Giang and Nam Giang districts in March, with 77 big trees chopped down. Local rangers and the two protective forest management boards of Sông Kôn and Nam Sông Bung claimed they were unaware of the cases until the public security agency began investigations. The cases are part of a series of illegal logging violations in the province since last September, when 110ha of protected forest was illegally cut down in Tiên Phước District’s Tiên Lãnh Commune. The provincial investigation teams said they found a path had been cleared for transporting logs from the forest and the illegal logging had been ongoing for months. A field examination found more than 126cu.m of log were left by loggers, while more than 70 per cent of the chopped timber had been transported from the forest. Vice Chairman of the province Lê … [Read more...] about Illegal logging bedevils central provinces